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Be free to join our communism mailing list at http://homepage.eircom.net/~kampf/ ---------------- The recent use of hijacked aircraft in an attack on US buildings involving the destruction of two of the tallest buildings in the world and damage to the Pentagon has had a serious political impact on the global situation. The fact that such a coordinated operation, despite the loss of thousands of lives, has had such a serious ongoing political impact is a reflection of the weakness of American imperialism. The fact that the actions of a relatively small number of terrorists is followed by a political change on the present ongoing scale is evidence of the serious crisis facing global capitalism. It is evidence too of the increasing obsolescence of capitalism and the existence of objective conditions, already overripe, for the establishment of communist relations of production. It is not insignificant that these events and their serious political impact has been taking place in the context of growing global capitalist economic slowdown. The destruction wrought by the terrorist operation, notwithstanding its scale, is not a cause, by itself, for the significant political changes that are following from it. The American bourgeoisie is exploiting this terrorist act to wilfully generate an atmosphere and mood that provides the pretext for the present kind of political response by US imperialism. It is clear that the socio-political difficulties facing the US bourgeoisie are on such a scale that it requires the kind of political conditions it is currently seeking to construct in the aftermath of this recent terrorist act. American imperialism, through the medium of its state apparatii and its mass media, has been relentlessly whipping up hysteria both domestically and globally to provide itself with the pretext to create changing political conditions that better suit its class interests. Such changed circumstances gives the US bourgeoisie the pretext for domestically broadening and intensifying its already aggressive imperialist actions --actions that have led to this loss of life in Manhattan and Washington. The fact that it must whip up such hysteria to escalate its domestic and international aggressiveness is irrefutable evidence of its fear of the American and indeed world working class. Because of its class weakness it is increasingly unable to freely engage in increasingly aggressively imperialist action without first having to generate conditions (through the whipping up of mass hysteria etc.) that fool the US working class into passively and actively supporting its oppressive policies. However as its present aggressiveness is broadened and intensified the consciousness of layers of the US working class will increasingly penetrate the fog of bourgeois mystification to see the naked predatory nature of US capitalism. It is the duty of communists to courageously highlight the real source of the terrorist act that has resulted in so much loss of the lives of American workers. It is the duty of communists to urge the working class to resist and challenge the predatory actions of US imperialism against the masses of the world. This means that communists, where possible must, organise against the vast propaganda machinery of the capitalist state that is being used to whip up hysteria and jingoism. It must, where possible, organise rallies and other forms of popular protest against Washington's increasing aggressiveness against the US and world working class. The source of the recent terrorist operation that has led to the loss of life of many American workers is none other than US imperialism. The increasing intensification of American imperialist aggression on the global stage against the world working masses is the cause of this act of terrorism. Washington's bombing of Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq and Serbia is the cause of this recent terrorist act on US soil and will be the cause of further terrorist acts. American imperialism's invasion of Serbia and active support for the current savage attempt by the Israeli state to crush the Palestinian people is the source of this terrorism. By treating people like pigs they will act like pigs. Consequently the American working class must place the blame for this great loss of working class life on the real perpetrators of this terrorist act --the world's greatest terrorist, the US bourgeoisie. It must accordingly proceed to rid itself of this class by destroying capitalism and replacing it with communist society. In this way it will have created the conditions that will make terrorism an impossibility. American imperialism pursues policies that lead to the death and injury of hundreds of thousands of workers both inside and outside the US. Today instead of joining hands with its bourgeoisie US workers must join hands with the workers of the world who have suffered too at the hands of US imperialism. It is a capitalist class whose time is over and that can no longer play any progressive role in the development of society. Its hands are covered in blood --it is a natural born killer. It must be eliminated by American workers class joining hands with European, Arab and Asian workers against US imperialism in the interests of humanity. By the world working class jointly acting against US imperialism it is uniting against all terrorism --the only real way of eliminating terrorism. Regards Karl Carlile To read or download our global communist programme click the following: http://homepage.eircom.net/~beprepared/FIST%20Programme.htm